Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-07
TALMAGE ON ELECTIONS.
Weekly Lecture OF the Brooklyn Divine
On Current Topics OF the Day.
Worldly Affairs Dealt With.
The Approaching Elections Throughout
the Country the Theme OF an Flo
quent Address Last Week.
Correspondence OF the Gazette.

| VIII IGImsge, ID. D., spoke in the Brook
Ign Tabernacle tonight, as usual, on the
seculsr events OF the week from re-
ligious standpoint. The subject of his
address was: "Fhe Approaching Elec-
tons" He sid:
From the newspapers Of the past few
weeks an reminded of the fall elections
in nearly all the states, and as this
autumn will have much 10 do with the
next autumn presidential election, there
are some things important TO say on the
right and wrong modes CT conducting q
political campaign. OF the two styles we
may make our cnoice.
One way is 10 gather up the scum and
slush and turpitude OF the community
into great reservoir and then let them
run down through the appointed sque-
ducts on the candidates presented. Take
the character OF the man whom you
don't expect to vote for and find out
who his ancestors were, aud if any
OF them were hanged or imprisoned, or
bOodiers of public funds. Make the con
or grandson now up for { ice suffer for
1t. Many CT those who are hot against
the theological theory that we suffer for
Adams LraGsgressioD, are glad in polit-
ical life to make the descendant nOmin-
ated for office take the consequences for
ancestral delinqueDcies. Never forgive
good EleeZar Of Bible times bec&use
wicked Jehosspaat was one of his fore
fathers. A candidate has no business to
have had bad grandfather. Bring up
the graveyard and array those under the
ground against those still above ground.
Then marshal ell the candidates early
indiecretions and follIes, and with them,
from behind the 2arricade Of the ballot
bcx, fusilsde and bombsheu your anteg-
onist.
| Then come on to the later periods OF
the candidates. life. Take his utterances
and put them into twistiog machine,
and turn them this way and that, and in
vert them, disj0 them, decapitate them,
! quarter them, and cruelty them. Paint
| him black from head to foot. Be sure of
| beginning with the blacking brush ct his
he'd, and show that he has no brains, no
mental qualification, no acumen, no
sound Judgment. Then put the blacking
| crush on his mouth, and show that he
can't make speech, or, if he does speak,
he ssys the Wrops thing. Then come
down to his shoulders, aud paint them
black, putting upon them the responsible
ity for
THE WRONG DEEDS OF OTHERS.
Then psint his heart back, showing that
he is cruel, and mean, and arrogant, and
oppressive to the poor. Then paint his
pocket black, and show that he never
gives anything to help others, and that
much Ct what he has in that pocket he
got dishonesty. Then come On down
and paint mis- knees black, showing that
he never prays, or is bigot ana only
kneels on his own sectarlan footstool.
Then come on down and paint his foot
black, showing that he has often walked
in forbidden places, aud that he has often
SLIPPED in morals. Then paint his house
black, as in the last Presidential election,
when both candidates were by imam US
doggerel, and caricature, and campaign
song, asssiled for their home life.
Then having worn out the blacking
brush on the opposing candidate, get q
load of lime, dump it at the feet OF your
favorite candidate, Stake it, and stir it,
sud then take your Whitewash brush in
hand. White v ash him from head to foot
Cover up all his defects. Make him wise,
eloquent, patriotic, efficient. Lie as much
in favor of the man whom you like as you
did against the man whom you dislike.
Taking to temperance people, make HIM
out the eternal friend of sobriety,
and talking to the beer low
ing population, make him vehement
against sumptuary enactment. Say to
those who are in favor of uDrestrained
emigration that he is fond OF foreigners,
and to those who ere opposed to emigra-
ton that he can't bear an freshman. Say
to Kentucky he is a free trader, snd to
Pennsylvania he is for high tariff. Rep
resent him when you are near the line be-
tween north and south as believing that
the war is over, and there ought to be no
more sectional strife; but when you are
up further toward the north star, repre- |
sent him as in psroXysm OF indignation |
because Jefferson Davls's hand was the
other day kissed by his soldiers in Geor-
gia. The fact is one candidate is by turns
DIR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
Have your candidate on pivot, so that |
you can turn him round this way and that, |
like Mrs. Jarley's wax figures. Now,
fellow citizens, take my candidate or
suffer the consequences. With him pros |
perity, good government, less taxes, and |
reform in all departments. Reject him,
and misrule, depleted treasury, poor |
wages,
BANKRUPTCY AND RUIN.
Now, having given three times three
for the solid ticket, we adjourn for the |
polls. Have near the polls two or three
saloons with free drinks. II it be against
the law to have the front door open on
election day, have the back door unlocked.
Or, il that also be watched, have some
private house where We can |
ell go for refreshments. You |
can't e1pect man to stand from morn
ing to ght in cold November day with
out some kind OF physical reinforcement.
Go out and meet the people as they come
to the polls, and give them your package
of tickets. II they are prepared for
another kind OF ballot, persuade them OF
their folly. Beseech them by all they
hold dear to pause before they throw the
city or the country into disasters from
which they will never recover. If YOU are
ST the head Of factory
or large commercial establish
ment, tell your employers you do
not want to interfere with their political
sentiments; that you have never used
your influence as an employer, and never
will use it, to decide what your employees
Gh0nl,i do hut am0pu v0nr mon |